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<alternate>

indicates that the constructs referenced by its children form an alternation.

Module tagdocsDEFCON

Attributes

Global and inherited attributes:
att.global @xml:id@n@xml:lang@xml:base@xml:space
att.global.analytic @ana
att.global.change @change
att.global.facs @facs
att.global.linking @corresp@synch@sameAs@copyOf@next@prev@exclude@select
att.global.rendition @rend@style@rendition
att.global.responsibility @cert@resp
att.global.source @source
att.repeatable @minOccurs@maxOccurs

Classes and content

Member of
model.contentPart
May contain

tagdocs

Contained by

tagdocs

Example

<content>
  <alternate>
    <elementRef key="name"/>
    <elementRef key="persName"/>
  </alternate>
</content>

This example content model permits either a name or a persName.

Schematron

<constraintSpec xmlns:sch="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron" ident="alternatechilden" scheme="schematron" xml:lang="en">
    <constraint>
      <sch:rule context="tei:alternate">
        <sch:assert test="count(*) gt 1">The alternate element must have at least two child elements.</sch:assert>
      </sch:rule>
    </constraint>
  </constraintSpec>

Content model

<content>
    <alternate>
      <sequence>
        <elementRef key="valList" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
        <classRef key="model.contentPart" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      </sequence>
      <sequence>
        <classRef key="model.contentPart" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
        <elementRef key="valList" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>
      </sequence>        
      
    </alternate>
  </content>